October 2017 - Chris Molanphy

Can you feel that chill in the air? And inhale the crisp aroma of depleted whip-its? For the third straight October, the song commanding Billboard’s Hot 100 as the autumn blows in is a damp, druggy bummer of a club track—a grim reflection of the season. Two years ago, the Weeknd’s spooky, coked-out, and improbably [...] Read more

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Hit Parade: Le Petty Prince Edition

27 October 20174 January 2019

Tom Petty and Prince only played together once. But their careers paralleled each other for four decades. Listen to Episode 6 of Slate’s Hit Parade: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab Slate Plus members: Get your ad-free podcast feed. In 2004, Prince joined Tom Petty onstage at the Rock and Roll Hall [...] Read more

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Tom Petty Was a Rock Chameleon

3 October 20176 January 2019

His career quietly spanned subgenres, from new wave to Southern to classic to grunge—anything that was rock ’n’ roll The performance that is rightfully enshrined as the greatest in the history of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame features an incendiary Prince, shredding on George Harrison’s Beatles classic “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” while [...] Read more